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  • - Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
    von Arwen P. (University of Delaware) Mohun
    46,00 €

    The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

  • - Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production
    von Lindy (Auburn University) Biggs
    45,00 €

    Her interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture, and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it?

  • - Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
    von Stephen G. (Gordon College) Alter
    49,00 €

    Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

  • - The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era
    von Michael N. (Professor Emeritus Pearson
    45,00 €

    In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

  • - Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan
    von Linda (Research Fellow Chao
    44,00 €

    Taiwan's history of citizen participation in direct elections, along with the political institutional changes narrated here by Chao and Myers, produced an unprecedented, peaceful political turn-over of power from the KMT ruling party to the DPP, or Democratic Progressive Party, in March 2000.

  • von Stephen (Johns Hopkins University) Dixon
    43,00 €

    But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.

  • - From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
    von Joseph F. (Associate Professor and Associate Dean & University of Florida) Spillane
    49,00 €

    Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today.

  • - Technology and Social Change in Rural America
    von Ronald R. (Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering Kline
    49,00 €

    Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.

  • - Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
    von David (Professor Vaught
    47,00 €

    Over time, however, labor relations, market imperatives, and changing political conditions undermined the growers' horticultural ideal.

  • - Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
    von Anya (Assistant Professor of History Jabour
    47,00 €

    By examining patterns of love and marriage in a formative era, Marriage in the Early Republic offers insights into romance and relationships in our own time as well.

  • - Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America
    von James (Associate Professor Mahoney
    50,00 €

    The book offers a general theoretical framework that will be of broad interest to scholars of comparative politics and political development, and its overall argument will stir debate among historians of particular Central American countries.

  • - Women's Rights and International Organizations
    von Nitza (Ben-Gurion University) Berkovitch
    49,00 €

    It concludes with the recent United Nations Decade for Women, which for the first time puts "women's rightson the world agenda.

  • - Policies and Practices for a New Era
    von Roger G. (Michigan State University) Baldwin
    46,00 €

    Designed to assist faculty, academic leaders, and institutions, Teaching without Tenure examines developments challenging the status quo in the American academic profession and offers guidance as higher education moves into an uncertain future.

  • - The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
    von Evelynn Maxine (Harvard University) Hammonds
    45,00 €

    Today, as the threat of AIDS and other new diseases reopens the conflict between the protection of public health and the protection of civil liberties, Childhood's Deadly Scourge reminds us that technical solutions for disease control have complex social implications.

  • von Glenn (The University of Texas at Tyler) Blake
    45,00 €

    This unique geographic location, with its unpredictable waters, its sinking swamps, its bayous and sloughs, provides a haunting landscape for Glenn Blake's characters.

  • - Origins of the Wars of American Independence
    von Robert W. Tucker
    44,00 €

    In addition, they similarly question conventional accounts of British policy from the Stamp Act crisis to the decision for war in 1775.

  • - From Homer to Lacan
    von Henry Staten
    49,00 €

    John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to "eros in mourning."

  • - A Variorum Edition
    von Edmund Spenser
    60,00 - 64,00 €

    Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.

  • von James C. Anderson
    51,00 €

    This detailed and concise account will appeal not only to students and scholars of Roman history, but to all with an interest in ancient architecture and urban society.

  • - Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life
    von Timothy E. Quill
    46,00 €

    Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings, common only in each person's struggle to confront issues of law and ethics and to realize a "good"death.

  • von Stephen (Johns Hopkins University) Dixon
    41,00 €

    It is a book that can be in turn frightening and funny, touching and tough-and one that is, on occasion, all these things at once.

  • - A History of the Johns Hopkins University
    von Hugh (Professor of History and American Studies Hawkins
    46,00 €

    This history of the early years of the Johns Hopkins University covers more than the establishment and development of this institution. It deals with a period of re-thinking and reassessment in higher education, when many of the fundamental problems of educational principle were tackled.

  • von C. R. Boxer
    45,00 €

    Boxer finds that "the mere survival of these Christian minorities through the vicissitudes of over three centuries is a tribute to the work of the dedicated missionaries of the Church Militant in times past."

  • - Structure, Narration, and Meaning
    von Bruce Louden
    47,00 €

    Louden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.

  • - Innovations in Health Care, Promotion, and Policy
     
    88,00 €

    Rhoades has gathered a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners to present a comprehensive assessment of the health of American Indian peoples today and the delivery of health services to them.

  • von J. Patrick (Corbally University Professor Emeritus Dobel
    46,00 €

    This timely book reminds us of the importance of public integrity as well as the demands and challenges that often threaten that integrity, especially in a liberal democracy such as the United States.

  • - Early Southeastern Pennsylvania
    von James T. Lemon
    46,00 €

    Providing deeper access into the processes of social change, The Best Poor Man's Country remains a significant addition to the literature on colonial American historiography.

  • von Mary (Professor Emeritus Lindemann
    51,00 €

    Lindemann examines the process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the social, economic, political, and cultural milieus on how medicine was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the neighborhood, and the town.

  • - Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950
    von Hubert B. Stroud
    42,00 €

    Yet Stroud acknowledges that future development is inevitable, as recreational and retirement communities continue to lure urban America with the promise of paradise.

  • - Argentina in Comparative Perspective
    von Edward L. (Northwestern University) Gibson
    46,00 €

    Gibson presents a comparative examination of conservative party politics in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s and offers a thoughtful look ahead to conservatism's future in the region.

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